: Multi-measure percent repeats in lilypond I'm trying to copy a score that indicates the repeat of a 4-bar phrase that has the 4 repeat bars laid out on the sheet, with a single (4-slash) percent-repeat symbol symbol in the

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Maybe adapting the "Isolated percent repeats" snippet may help: just replace the whole note by a longa:

makePercent =
#(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?)
"Make a percent repeat the same length as NOTE."
(make-music 'PercentEvent
'length (ly:music-length note)))

relative c'' {
c1 | d1 | c1 | b1 break
makePercent slonga break
c1 | c4 d4 b4 f4 | a1 a1 bar "|."
}

will result in: